a boy in search of a father

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 104151

 squeakinby <squeakinby at t...> wrote:
> I was wondering today how I would feel if Harry doesn't resolve this 
> search for a father by the end of the series.  It would be almost as bad 
> as if he dies because wouldn't a part of him either die or remain 
> unborn?  Doesn't he remain scarred for life if this isn't addressed?
> 
> It would seem very efficient if the HBP could fill the role as a father 
> figure but I would suspect great conflict on Harry's part in accepting 
> that relationship.
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Actually, I think we saw this foreshadowed in PoA quite well.  By the time the books 
end, Harry is 17 and by all means, a man.  Like he had to find his fatherr inside 
himself to produce his Patronus in PoA when he thought it'd been his dad who saved 
him, he will end his "search" for a father, when he realizes it's within himself.  
Perhaps, and this is assuming he will live, it will be in an epilogue type chapter where 
Harry realizes he gets the father-son relationship he's always wanted by having a son 
of his own and, this time, he's gets to be the father he never had and his son gets the 
childhood he never had.I think it will come full circle like this.  It would be a bit too 
little, too late for someone to step forward (like Lupin even) now for the last two 
books.  Harry is very much on his own in that regard.  I think it's better that way.  
Really, of all the ages, 16 and 17 year olds are the least likely ages to be craving a 
fathe and so I doin't think he's missing much like he was back at 11, 12, and 13.

Arya